Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theaterAuthor: Worthen, William B 1955-Published: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Theatre | RhetoricPublisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Roberto RosselliniAuthor: Brunette, PeterPublished: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: Cinema and Performance ArtsPublisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more]Similar Items